Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 293B - Mechanical Voting Systems
Section 293B.010 - Definitions

1. "Ballot marking device" means a device which allows a registered voter to mark a paper ballot which is subsequently counted on an electronic tabulator, counting device or computer.

2. "Firmware" means programming instructions that are stored in a read-only memory format within a mechanical recording device rather than being implemented through software.

3. "Mechanical recording device" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 293B.032.

4. "Mechanical voting system" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 293B.033.

5. "Results cartridge" means an elections media cartridge or memory device which contains the electronically recorded ballots cast during the election and from which the ballots are tabulated.

6. "Voter verifiable paper audit trail printer" or "VVPAT" means the device attached to a mechanical recording device and the paper it prints to record all votes cast by a voter for any and all candidates and for or against any and all measures, enabling that voter to visually verify that the mechanical voting system accurately recorded the votes of the voter.